Follow his funeral car;
They show the banners taken,
They tell his battles won,
And after him lead his masterless steed,
While peals the minute gun.

Amid the noblest of the land
We lay the sage to rest,
And give the bard an honored place
With costly marble drest,
In the great minster transept,
Where lights like glories fall,
And the organ rings, and the sweet choir sings,
Along the emblazoned wall.

This was the truest warrior
That ever buckled sword;
This the most gifted poet
That ever breathed a word.
And never earth's philosopher
Traced with his golden pen
On the deathless page truths half so sage
As he wrote down for men.

And had he not high honor?--
The hillside for a pall,
To lie in state, while angels wait,
With stars for tapers tall;
And the dark rock-pines, like tossing plumes,
Over his bier to wave,
And God's own hand in that lonely land
To lay him in the grave,--

In that strange grave without a name,
Whence his uncoffined clay
Shall break again, O wondrous thought!
Before the judgment day,
And stand with glory wrapt around
On the hills he never trod;
And speak of the strife, that won our life,
With the incarnate son of God.

O lonely grave in Moab's land!
O dark Beth-peor's hill!
Speak to these curious hearts of ours,
And teach them to be still.
God hath his mysteries of grace,
Ways that we cannot tell;
He hides them deep, like the hidden sleep
Of him He loved so well.

_--Cecil Frances Alexander._

THE HISTORY OF JOSHUA

After Moses, Joshua was duke and leader of the children of Israel, and
brought them into the land of behest, and did many great battles. For
whom God showed many great marvels and in especial one; that was that
the sun stood still at his request, till he had overcome his enemies, by
the space of a day. And our Lord, when he fought, sent down such
hail-stones that slew more of his enemies with the stones than with
man's hand.

Joshua was a noble man and governed well Israel, and divided the land
unto the twelve tribes by lot. And when he was an hundred and ten years
old he died. And divers dukes after him judged and deemed Israel, of
whom be noble histories, as of Jephthah, Gideon, and Samson, which I
pass over unto the histories of the kings, which is read in holy church
from the first Sunday after Trinity Sunday, unto the first Sunday of
August.

THE HISTORY OF SAUL

_The first Sunday after Tr